Oedipus; or, The Legend of a Conqueror by Marie Delcourt

Oedipus; or, The Legend of a Conqueror by Marie Delcourt

Marie Delcourt's brilliant study of the Oedipus legend, an unjustly neglected monument of twentieth-century classical scholarship published in 1944 and issued here for the first time in English translation, bridges the gap between Carl Robert's influential Oidipus (1915) and the work of Lowell Edmunds seventy years later.

“Marie Delcourt’s book about the ritual origins of the Oedipus myth is a masterpieceIt reveals the archaic foundations of human societies and remains as enlightening and useful as it was when it first appeared seventy years ago.”
—LUCIEN SCUBLA, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and author of Giving Life, Giving Death: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, Philosophy

MARIE DELCOURT (1891–1979) was Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Liège for more than three decades and the author of many works, including translations, biographies, and studies in the mythology and religion of ancient Greece.

MALCOLM DEBEVOISE is a three-time winner of the French-American Foundation Prize for nonfiction and has translated more than forty works from French and Italian in all branches of scholarship.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781611863512
ISBN 10	1611863511
Title	Oedipus; or, The Legend of a Conqueror
Author	Marie Delcourt
Series	Studies In Violence Mimesis And Culture Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Michigan State University Press
Year published	2020-08-01
Number of pages	347
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.